Aloïs Troller, Grundriss einer selbstverständlichen juristischen Methode und Rechtsphilosophie (Das Recht in Theorie und Praxis), Basel/ Stuttgart: Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1975.
Concerning the main theories, it is to refered to the extensively discussed writings by Aloïs Troller, i.e. to the "Introduction" as well as to the "Principles of Jurisprudence" (see nos. 1.14 and 2.14 of this Legal Anthology).
If the method of jurisprudence be self-understanding, there would not be any necessity to discuss the relation between theory and practice. In his last legal philosophical publication, Aloïs Troller undertakes to reassure himself and the reader that theory be a true reflection of practice and not to dominate legal practice with its dogmatic doctrines. This wish exactly defines the task for legal philosophy, according to the author's personal view. He tends towards relativism, insofar as he takes seriously the individual, subjective approach he had put forward in his previous writings.
As an extract, we have selected for reading a passage, where the old-fashioned question of the relation between being ("Sein") and ought ("Sollen") is discussed. As a kind of remedy, Aloïs Troller invents a dialectical variant to existentialism, where the existing ("Sein") is changed for the being ("Dasein"), and where the normative, imperative consists in the desicion of the desirable state of being ("Sein-Sollen", respectively "Dasein-Sollen"). "Die These, dass aus dem was ist, nicht gefolgert werden kann, was sein soll, sieht am menschlichen Sein und Dasein vorbei. Sie erklärt sich aus einer Spaltung des Erkenntnisbereits in einen materiellen und einen moralischen Teil. Der Mensch und damit sein Dasein und sein Sein ist unteilbar Materie, Seele und Geist. Und alle Erkenntnis bedarf der Grundlage in der Materie, so wie ein Geisteswerk (Erfindung, Wer der Literatur, Musik oder Kunst) nur im körperlichen Träger sich erfahren lässt. Es gibt kein moralisches Sein des Menschen, das von der Materie gelöst sich entwickeln würde. Die Erfahrung beweist das Gegenteil". Eventually, we have found back to experience, to legal, ethical, moral and consuetudinary experience. This approach not only throws a new light upon the everlasting problem of justice, but also opens unseen possibilities to deal with the goods of nature and environment within legal order.
Aloïs Troller, born 15 May 1906 in Wilihof, died 15 May 1987 in Luzern, graduated in Freiburg in 1837, after having studied jurisprudence at the Universities of Berne and Basel. He also followed his musical studies as a singer in Munich. From 1950 onwards he taught as a private lecturer at the University of Freiburg, where he was entitled professor for intellectual property between 1957 and 1976 as well as for legal philosophy between 1971 and 1978. Above all he influenced the development of intellectual property rights in Europe by his eminent work in two volumes "Intellectual Property Law" ("Immaterialgüterrecht"; 3. ed. 1983-1985).
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Caroline McCool was out for a walk in October 2010, enjoying one of the last warm days of the year. Fall is her favorite season. She headed over the bridge behind Blaisdell Hall, past the ponds on the "Pitt trail" and beyond the blueberry bushes.
Puppy, her black lab/American Boxer mix, trotted along. When Caroline got to the green metal post at Clarks Lane that marks the end of the trail, she — didn't turn around. She kept going. Across the road. Through the culvert. Into the brush. Sometime after that, she called her son on her cell phone and said she was lost. A search by her family came up empty. The police were called. When Caroline was finally found at Marilla Reservoir, about four miles from Clarks Lane, she couldn't tellany one exactly how she got there. She seemed OK, on the outside, and Puppy was still by her side. "He wasn't going to let anything happen to me," she says today.
But something had happened to her, and, in reality, she was still verymuch lost.
Bipolar disorder is a brain disorder that causes dramatic shifts in mood and energy, from manic highs to depressive lows. (Some call it manic-depressive illness.)
When Caroline was taken from Marilla to Bradford Regional Medical Center, she was admitted for treatment of this condition, one that affects 5.7 million Americans. Bipolar disorder can be severely debilitating, but it also can be effectively treated with medications and talk therapy.
In severe cases, some people need electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Caroline ended up having four such treatments, and they helped, the fourth one being the key. "Dr. Laroche brought me back to reality. I wouldn't be sitting here talking without him," she says.
Lois Sager was working at the hospital and remembers the catatonic state Caroline was in before ECT. "It really was night and day, the difference. She came back to life," says Lois, who helped prep Caroline for her treatments.
Of course, that wasn't the end of Caroline's battle with bipolar disorder. This battle lasts a lifetime. The next challenge was to stay on her medications at home. She couldn't. "It's not that I didn't want to take them," she says. "I just would forget. It was tough to keep track."
She took different meds in the morning and at night, meds for different health problems, different doses. It was too much.
While Caroline struggled to stay on her meds throughout 2011, Evergreen Elm's Mobile Medication program was getting underway with
someone like her in mind.
By Christmastime, she was ready to benefit from the program, and her referral to it marked another turning point in her recovery. Lois, by then Evergreen Elm's Mobile Medication
supervisor, and registered nurse Heather Reed started going to Caroline's apartment twice a day to make sure she took her meds.
They gave her educational materials about her meds, placed reminders around the apartment and set up color-coded trays for her pills.
"We taught her that taking medications for bipolar disorder is just like taking medications for any other disease," says Lois.
The stress of not working complicated things, but throughout 2012, Caroline gradually got better at adhering to her treatment plan. Lois and Heather started going once a day, then three times a week and eventually hardly at all.
When Caroline was ready to be discharged from the program in January 2013, it was not a happy day of graduation. "I was sad. You and Heather were in my life and were my friends," she tells Lois.
"If something was bothering me, I could bring it up. Heather told me to call her anytime. You guys were there for me."
Today, the meds are working. She still has the reminders around her apartment. It's a challenge to stick to the schedule, but she's managing. "I keep thinking I'm falling back. I had
that feeling last week. But I wouldn't let it happen. I won't let it happen," she says. There's determination, almost defiance in her hazel eyes.
Caroline is 45 with long, loosely curled strawberry blonde hair. With her openly expressed opinions, bright red finger nails and array of tattoos, she comes off as a bit of a free spirit. A cross on her left arm is bordered by the names of four lost loved ones, including a young niece and nephew. A rose with a tiny hummingbird on her right calf honors her two sons, mom and dad.
The unicorn and Tasmanian devil are just for fun.
Her late mother, also named Caroline, lived with bipolar disorder as well. The illness often runs in families. "Thank you, Mom!" she says with just a hint of sarcasm, pointing skyward. The two weren't close until later in their relationship. Caroline tears up when she talks about finishing a craft project her mother was working on when she died, needlepoint on canvas with
butterflies and flowers.
She also remembers a Halloween Day 15 years ago when she was driving with her mother and turned to her and said, "Mom, I need help."
Caroline thinks back on days she would curl up and "sleep my life away," her dog providing the only motivation to get out of bed. She's hopeful those times are behind her, and she's hopeful about the future.
"If I don't look for my future, what else do I have? Am I waiting for my death? I don't want to think that way. I'm waiting for the next change in mylife," she says.
After working for 20 years at Pepperell Braiding in Bradford, she now expresses an interest in becoming a missionary. She also wants to do something to change perceptions about mental illness (for one, "we're not criminals"). Caroline broke down in tears at the Relay for Life when she thought about how poorly attended the walk for mental illness awareness had been. "We need something bigger for mental health," she says.
She's keeping an eye out for the "right guy," despite some bad experiences in the past. When her mom was dying seven years ago, she said, "Don't say no to marriage." Caroline says she won't.
Someone recently told her she needs to get a life, and that really ticked her off. "I have a life!" she says. She has two adult sons, a close friend in her building and peers in Dickinson's Mental Health Center's Partial Hospitalization program whom she considers family. She has Puppy, and now Puppy has a kitten to play with. And she crochets blankets and baby hats for Healthy Beginnings Plus.
Caroline spoke openly, graciously and unselfishly in the gazebo along the trail where things went so wrong on that autumn afternoon three years ago. When the interview was over, she walked past the ponds, facing a gauntlet of gypsy moths that were caterpillars just a few days before. Then she headed back over the bridge, this time making a return trip, on the way to that next change in her own life.
Josh CurcioCaroline McCool – Path to Recovery 07.16.2015
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Die evangelische Pfarrkirche ist ein denkmalgeschütztes Kirchengebäude in Bobenhausen II, einem Ortsteil von Ulrichstein im Vogelsbergkreis (Hessen). Die einschiffige Saalkirche von 1765 im Stil des Rokoko hat einen spätromanischen Westturm aus der ersten Hälfte des 13. Jahrhunderts mit wehrhaftem Charakter.

Geschichte
Die mittelalterliche Kirche wurde erstmals im 12. Jahrhundert erwähnt. Sie war dem heiligen Gangolf geweiht und Mutterkirche eines Kirchspiels mit den Filialen Höckersdorf, Kölzenhain, Altenhain, Ober-Seibertenrod, Wohnfeld, Feldkrücken und Sellnrod. Eine Abbildung aus dem Jahr 1591 von Wilhelm Dilich zeigt sie mit einem kreuzförmigen Grundriss. Mit Einführung der Reformation wechselte die Kirchengemeinde zum evangelischen Bekenntnis. In der ersten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts erhielt der Westturm seinen heutigen Spitzhelm.

In der ersten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts verfiel die Kirche zusehends und galt als "ohnstrittig eine mit den baufälligsten in hießigem Oberfürstenthum". Nach einem Brand bis auf die Grundmauern im Jahr 1760 wurde der Abriss der Kirche erforderlich. Als von 1762 bis 1765 unter der Leitung von Landbaumeister Lorenz Friedrich Müller das Kirchenschiff neu gebaut wurde, blieb der Kirchturm erhalten. Im Rahmen des Kirchenneubaus erhielt der alte Turm 1763 ein neues Portal. Im Jahr 1907 wurden das Walmdach und die Kirchendecke unter Leitung des Friedberger Architekten Freundlieb erneuert und erfolgte eine neue Innenbemalung.

Die Kirchengemeinde erstreckt sich heute über die fünf Ortschaften Bobenhausen, Höckersdorf, Kölzenhain, Ober-Seibertenrod und Wohnfeld, die teils über eigene Kirchen verfügen. Sie gehört zum Evangelischen Dekanat Büdinger Land in der Evangelischen Kirche in Hessen und Nassau.

Architektur

Die geostete Kirche ist am nördlichen Ortsrand erhöht errichtet. Sie ist weiß verputzt; nur die Gewände und Eckgliederung aus rotem Sandstein sind ausgespart. Das Gotteshaus besteht aus zwei Baukörpern, dem mittelalterlichen Turm und dem Kirchenschiff aus den 1760er Jahren. Entsprechend der führenden Rolle der Kirche im Kirchspiel wurde eine große und repräsentative Kirche errichtet.

Der ungegliederte, gedrungene Kirchturm mit Eckquaderung aus Lungstein ist in die Kirche eingebunden. Das erste Obergeschoss hat an jeder Seite ein kleines Schlitzfenster. Das zweite Obergeschoss hat unter der Traufe kleine spitzbogige Luken. Der steile Helmaufbau aus spätgotischer Zeit ist vollständig verschiefert. Dem Spitzhelm sind vier prägende Gauben mit Dreiecksgiebel aufgesetzt. Er wird von Turmknauf, einem schmiedeeisernen Kreuz und einem vergoldeten Wetterhahn bekrönt. Das Westportal von 1763 ist ähnlich wie das Südportal gestaltet, aber ohne Wappen. Neben dem Portal ist der Rest eines Weihwasserbeckens erhalten. Die Turmhalle hat ein Tonnengewölbe und dient als Eingangsbereich. Sie ist durch eine zweiflügelige Türe mit verglastem Oberteil mit dem Schiff verbunden.

Der große Saalbau auf rechteckigem Grundriss mit abgeschrägten Ecken ist durch eine zweigeschossige Fensteranordnung fünfachsig gegliedert. Die Segmentbogenfenster haben Schlusssteine. Portale mit reich profilierten Gewänden an den beiden Langseiten erschließen das Kirchenschiff. Die rechteckigen Portale haben vergrößerte Ecken und Schlusssteine, von denen der im Südportal mit der Jahreszahl 1762 bezeichnet ist. Das Südportal hat zusätzlich einen gesprengten Giebel mit dem Wappen von Hessen-Darmstadt, das von zwei Löwen gehalten und außen von zwei geflügelten Engelköpfen flankiert wird. Das Schiff wird von einem hohen, geschieferten Mansarddach bedeckt, dem an jeder Seite zwei kleine Gauben aufgesetzt sind.

Ein Denkmal für die Gefallenen des Zweiten Weltkriegs wird aus drei Stelen vor der Südseite der Kirche gebildet.

Innenausstattung

Die Voutendecke mit Mittelspiegel wird durch profilierte Stuckleisten gegliedert. Die längsgerichtete Raumaufteilung ist symmetrisch angeordnet. Es wurden dreiseitig umlaufende Emporen eingebaut, die auf Säulen ruhen. An der östlichen Seite trägt eine freistehende Orgelempore die Kanzel. Die Ostempore ruht auf einer Mittelstütze zwischen zwei großen Stichbögen mit Kämpfern. Die Kanzel ist von hinten zugänglich. Kanzel und Schalldeckel sind mit Ornamenten im Stil des Spätbarock verziert. Der polygonale Schalldeckel, der mit der Empore verschmilzt, wird von Vasen und einer Volutenkrone bekrönt. Davor steht der Blockaltar mit Sandsteinplatte frei im Raum.

An den Emporenbrüstungen sind 48 Ölgemälde auf Leinwand von Daniel Hisgen angebracht. Sie zeigen vor der Orgel die vier Evangelisten und zwölf Apostel und an den anderen Emporen einen Bilderzyklus mit Szenen aus dem Alten und Neuen Testament von der Erschaffung der Welt bis zur Ausgießung des Heiligen Geistes. Die geschwungenen Wangen des Kirchengestühls, das einen Mittelgang freilässt, haben flachgeschnitzten Akanthus und Kartuschen sowie aufgesetzte Kugeln.

Orgel

Die Rokokoorgel baute Philipp Ernst Wegmann 1774/1775, nachdem er seine vertraglichen Vereinbarungen von 1766 und 1771 nicht eingehalten hatte. Vier zunächst ausgesparte Register wurden 1778 durch Wegmanns Meistergesellen Johann Gottfried Meynecke ergänzt. Johann Georg Förster reparierte die Orgel im Jahr 1844 und reinigte die Zungenstimmen, die später entfernt wurden. Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau renovierten die Orgel 1925. Im Jahr 1961 überholten Emanuel Kemper & Sohn aus Lübeck das Instrument und tauschten zwei Register aus. Bei einer weiteren Restaurierung von 1979 bis 1982 durch Gerald Woehl wurde der ursprüngliche Zustand wieder angenähert. In diesem Zuge wurden sechs verlorene Register ersetzt. Die Orgel verfügt über 21 Register und gehört zu den wenigen historischen zweimanualigen Instrumenten in der Orgellandschaft Hessen, die weitgehend erhalten sind. Der Prospekt ist siebenachsig gegliedert: Dem großen mittleren Rundturm schließen sich schmale zweigeschossige Flachfelder an. Auf zwei mittelgroße Harfenfelder folgen zwei kleine Rundtürme und außen zwei niedrige Harfenfelder. Die Disposition lautet wie folgt:

 Koppeln: II/I, I/P
 N = 1980/1982 neu gefertigte Register

Literatur
 Georg Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I: Regierungsbezirke Gießen und Kassel. Bearbeitet von Folkhard Cremer und anderen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, München / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3, S. 116.
 Wilhelm Diehl: Baubuch für die evangelischen Pfarreien der Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt. (= Hassia sacra; 5). Selbstverlag, Darmstadt 1931, S. 500–501.
 Dieter Großmann: Hessen. Kunstdenkmäler und Museen. 6. Auflage. Reclam, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-15-008466-0, S. 548–549.
 Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen (Hrsg.): Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen. Vogelsbergkreis II. Teil 2: Schlitz, Schotten, Ulrichstein, Wartenberg (= Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland). Theiss, Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 978-3-8062-3055-0, S. 1000–1002 (Präpublikationsfassung von 2010, PDF-Datei; 4,15 MB).

Weblinks

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Einzelnachweise

Kirchengebäude im Vogelsbergkreis
Erbaut in den 1760er Jahren
Kirchengebäude des Dekanats Büdinger Land
Sakralbau in Ulrichstein
Kulturdenkmal in Ulrichstein
Disposition einer Orgel
Kirchengebäude in Europa

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Q: POST in node.js fails I'm working on a Python API to handle REST calls to MongoDB. The API is based on Kule (and thus includes Bottle and PyMongo modules). The front-end is built using node.js. I have been developing and testing on localhost with the API, front-end, and MongoDB on different ports.
I have set up the API and have been trying to get CRUD requests to work. I can get these to work from a Python script as well as from Javascript running on Apache server. However, when I add the same code to the front-end, GET works, but POST fails with a 500 error.
This POST code works on the Apache server:
var myrequest=new XMLHttpRequest();
myrequest.onreadystatechange=function(){
  if (myrequest.readyState==4){
    if (myrequest.status==201){
      alert(myrequest.responseText);
    } else{
      alert("An error has occured making the request");
    }
  }
}
myrequest.open("POST", "http://localhost:8080/items", true);
myrequest.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/json;charset=UTF-8");
myrequest.send(JSON.stringify({'name' : 'Name', 'description' : 'Description'}));

When I add this to the front-end, I get the following traceback from Kule:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\bottle.py", line 764, in _handle
    return route.call(**args)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\bottle.py", line 1625, in wrapper
    rv = callback(*a, **ka)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\bottle.py", line 1575, in wrapper
    rv = callback(*a, **ka)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\kule\kule.py", line 64, in post_list
    inserted = collection.insert(request.json)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pymongo\collection.py", line 351, in insert
    docs = [self.__database._fix_incoming(doc, self) for doc in docs]
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable
127.0.0.1 - - [24/Jun/2014 07:53:40] "POST /scenarios HTTP/1.1" 500 50

So, what am I doing wrong? Why does the Javascript break in node.js? I have GET working, but POST fails. Why?
Thanks!

A: I found my error.
myrequest.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/json;charset=UTF-8");

"Content-type" should be "Content-Type" with an upercase "T".
Silly mistake. Left as a note to others.

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Q: Focus issue in Windows Eye screen reader I am displaying a div section 'errormessages' (Attributes aria-live="rude" id="errormessages" tabindex="-1") in a page when any validation fails.
When tested with screen readers,

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*JAWS 14: It reads the error messages displayed and the focus is set at the div section.

*Windows Eye 8.3: It reads the error messages displayed, but the focus is not being set to the div section.

Kindly can anyone suggest improvements?
$('#errormessages').show();

A: In order to bring this div in focus regardless of the screen reader being used, explicitly set the focus to it:
$('#errormessages').show().focus();


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In addition, I, as I connect with other educators about the emerging issues and pedagogy of connected learning, I reflect here on those issues, pedagogy, and connections that make for a diverse dialogue about what education could be. These are my reflections.
We are learning forward. Thank you for your patience as we grow.
This blog will include reflections on teaching and lessons as well as connections and conversations with my Personal Learning Network as a model for my students. This year I am participating in #ETMOOT — a participatory, self-directed learning community.
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Seventh grade studied Polar Problems, researched the effects of global warming on the Arctic and us. They wrote a short persuasive piece in online multi-media. This unit prepared us for our WASL persuasive writing test.
As the year started and students filtered in, the eager faces mingled with those students who are less concerned with education and more concerned with being center stage with inappropriate language and actions. I thought about the implications the work of often contrary students could bring to the project; would they continue their negative, distorted views? In the next instant, though, I knew that it is precisely these students who need the opportunity to participate. Their immediate issues and concerns can be transcended as the the whole class deals with and discusses issues of the community. How else will all the students become engaged responsibly if we (I) don't invite all students? Our purpose and my stated goal is to facilitate student civic responsibility; I believe the students, all of them, will want their voices heard, and they can only be heard if they learn the protocol for responsible sharing. I share these feelings and concerns I have so my students know how carefully and thoughtfully I plan for their successful education and hope for their future.
So, students, what do you think? Are you willing to join students across the nation in "writing the future" by learning how to address concerns to a public persona with thorough discussion, research, and writing?
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The death occurred at the weekend in the Sheil Hospital, Ballyshannon of well-known resident of Lisahully, Mary Flynn.
The late Mrs. Flynn was a member of the Slevin family and was known for her loving and kind nature. An only child, she lost her mother when she was young but met the love of her life, Jim Flynn, when she was just 16. She spent all of her life living in Lisahully and setting up home in her own family home, where she raised her family.
She was a great conversationalist and had a magnificent memory, a real people's person, who enjoyed the company of others and especially her family and grandchildren. A lady, she was modest, open minded and never a begrudger. She loved her work in her home, in the garden and on the farm.
In more recent times she showed great patience in dealing with her health issues, her strong faith coming to the fore.
She was predeceased by her husband, Jim, six years ago, and is surived by her sons Gerard, Seamus and Aidan; daughters Marie, Fionnuala and Grainne; sons-in-law, daughters-in-law and grandchildren.
Her funeral took place on Tuesday to St. Patrick's Church, Ballyshannon where Requiem Mass was concelebrated by Fr. Hugh Hanlon assisted by Fr. Seamus Gallagher, Frosses; Fr. Vincent Gallogley, OFM, Rossnowlagh; Fr. Dermot Burke and Fr. Herbie Bromley. Afterwards she was laid to rest in Abbey Assaroe afterwards.


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Flash Fiction: The Barman Always Listens
"Sometimes, people really are just useless." James, bent over a double scotch, was snacking on blocks of cheese and cocktail onions skewered on toothpicks – hardly the thing you usually saw at these parties. Waiters were going around with other snacks in the room filled with people dressed for a cocktail party. There was a hum of voices, soft background music, and every now and then a crystal laugh. Other laughter would soon follow as it came from Mrs Van Houdt, an heiress to a few billion after the passing of her husband three weeks prior. There were rumours after his death, especially when she started having her cocktail parties again only two days after the funeral. Those wanting to stay in her good graces, however, said nothing.
The barman polished a glass with only a cursory glance at the man in front of him who had moved on to a platter of cheese and crackers. The scotch stood untouched and he wondered if it had been ordered more for effect than anything else. He had truly fallen for the bait.
"Why do you say that?" the barman asked.
"Well, take me for instance," James said, still chewing. "I had the perfect job lined up – or so I thought at least. And I did it without question. Why? Because I was in love." He skewered a slice of brie. "And I thought she loved me."
"Was it illegal?"
"It was a gift to humanity if you ask me."
"Does it have anything to do with Mr Van Houdt?"
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A crystal laugh sounded above the hum of voices in the room.
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Caiaphas' question
When did Jesus claim to be the Messiah?
The synoptic Gospels agree on this. At the trial of Jesus before the Sanhedrin, Caiaphas challenged the charismatic sect leader Jesus of Nazareth whether he claimed to be the Messiah. Jesus said yes, he was. Mark 14: 61-62, NIV:
Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One? "I am," said Jesus. "And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven."
This was the critical moment in Jesus' two trials. The admission was an open-and-shut proof of blasphemy and led immediately to the first, and SFIK legally sound, conviction under Jewish religious law. The second trial and conviction by Pilate on the charge of sedition was a secondary put-up job to secure an execution, which the Sanhedrin either had no jurisdiction to impose or thought impolitic to carry out if it did.
Mosaic in Ravenna, 6th century Source
I've observed before that the omissions in religious art are sometimes as striking as the emphases. You don't see many paintings of "Caiaphas versus Jesus." Partly this is diffuse anti-Semitism. The scene is one of a balanced confrontation between two figures of authority – Jesus does not challenge the hostile High Priest the way he slights the sleazy apparatchik Pilate, the guy who controls the troops. Caiaphas is a baddie, but he has to be presented as a figure of dignity and substance. Much better to show nameless hook-nosed Jews sneering at Jesus as he's flogged or crowned with thorns (the latter incidentally clearly part of the Roman stage-setting for the public destruction of a rebel). However, it's mainly because the orthodox reading of the gospels has been that Jesus' messianic claim was well established already, so the exchange with Caiaphas merely confirmed the already known.
But is that so clear? If you leave out John, an interpretation more than a history, the prior claims look ambiguous. The acknowledgement by Peter of Jesus as the Messiah in Matthew 16:15-16 and Luke 9:20 results from a question by Jesus to his close disciples: "Who do you say I am?" This is conventionally read as a test, and the passage continues in Matthew (but not Luke) with a confirmation. The question could just as easily have reflected uncertainty as policy. Elsewhere, after the transfiguration, Jesus orders the inner disciples not to divulge their vision (Matthew 17:9). Again, either explanation is possible.
The strongest evidence that Jesus had not made an unambiguous public claim is from the trial itself. Mark and Matthew recount that witnesses against Jesus came forward, but could not establish a clear case. The best shot was an indirect (and, according to the gospel writers, false) claim that Jesus had declared he could destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days. The Temple party had known about Jesus for some time and identified him as a major threat. In this it was supported by other factions (Pharisees and Sadducees) who had come into opposition to Jesus earlier. If Jesus had made a public claim to be the Messiah, this would have been common knowledge and the authorities would have found truthful witnesses easily enough.
So it's a very plausible reading that it was only at the trial before the Sanhedrin that Jesus came clean. The moment was of extraordinary importance. Jesus could have walked back from the claim and quite probably saved his life, like Sabbatai Zevi.
This reading also makes more sense of the moving accounts of the agony in the garden at Gethsemane. On the traditional reading, the die is already cast. Jesus faces certain death, and struggles to come to terms with it. The synoptics say that the disciples both fell asleep and overheard Jesus pleading to God for a get-out-of-jail card. It's possible, but something isn't quite right, not just the overhearing. The natural reaction to inevitable doom is surely to huddle with your friends for comfort. You go off by yourself when you are struggling with a fateful decision. On my reading, how to respond to the Sanhedrin about the messianic claim fits perfectly. Jesus was deciding whether to confirm it and die, probably horribly, or walk it back and live.
1. The above takes a mainstream conservative Christian approach that the synoptic gospels are reasonably accurate while John should be taken, as history, with a pinch of salt. I'm not going to argue this position. If you take the line that the synoptics are also basically theological meditations loosely connected to historical events, or more radically that Jesus of Nazareth is a fictional character, my problem has no meaning. I will just observe that the reliability of a text and its internal coherence are not independent. A text should be judged by its most coherent internal interpretation, not polemically by its worst.
2. I trust I have not offended any reader by this little essay. It is not proselytising, though it comes from within a Christian tradition. It may serve as a topical reminder that "Christian" and "ignorant idolatrous bigot" are not necessarily synonymous.
3. Where I do plead guilty is to the longstanding Christian vice of engaging in the enjoyable pastime of speculating about the person of the founder of my religion rather than the harder work of living as he recommended. Given this long history, it is most unlikely that my speculations are original. I apologise to any unrecognised predecessors, whether Gnostics, Cappadocian Fathers, or Unitarian divines.
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8 thoughts on "Caiaphas' question"
EdWhitney says:
One difficulty we have in relating to these narratives is that they all happened so long ago, and happened to Bible characters rather than people like us. The High Priest had to decide whether he was face to face with the Messiah, but, being a Bible character, he was too blind to see what was in front of him. Back in 1994, however, we had a chance to be Bible characters ourselves. That was the year of the passing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneeerson, who had been coyly noncommittal about whether he was the Messiah, but some of whose followers said with great assurance that he had met all the criteria for claiming that title.
On June 12 of 1994, the Rebbe died in New York, an event that made the front page of newspapers everywhere. And on June 13, two of his closest followers appeared on Larry King Live, affirming that he had satisfied all the requirements for Moshiach Now! Nothing supernatural would occur, they told their audience (Maimonides says that nature remains in its usual course during the Messianic Age). Out in Santa Cruz, California, I listened with fascination and with the determination to look for evidence that the age of redemption was at hand, to be signified not by subjective visions of the transcendent, but by public evidence of the achievement of World Peace, the principal requirement that through the ages has kept the Jewish people saying that the Messiah had not yet arrived.
"Death Shatters Jewish Hope for Messiah" read one newspaper headline. Aha! Exactly the headline that would have been written nearly two millennia earlier, thought I. But why not wait for three days and see if there are any signs of redemption which will be visible to all?
And on the third day, the New York Times reported that full diplomatic relations had been established between Israel and the Vatican! A two thousand year era of hostility and mistrust had ended! I confess that I got a trifle funny in the head when that story appeared, and even funnier the following day when the Times reported that Fidel Castro had appeared in public for the first time ever in civilian clothes rather than military dress, a sure sign that the prophesy of Isaiah had been fulfilled, that swords were being beaten into plowshares, and fatigues were being exchanged for white guayabera shirts. And on the day after that, when Jimmy Carter went to North Korea to defuse the most dangerous situation in the world in a peaceful and respectful manner, the dots were all connected and the picture was complete. The Messiah had indeed arrived and the Messianic Age had begun! I was off and running (right into the hospital for a seven day mental health hold).
Well, I never got any takers to join Christians for Schneerson to seek interfaith dialogue with Jews for Jesus. But I did come away with a question which seems relevant to our world today. Christians have long said that the contemporaries of Jesus did not recognize the Messiah in front of them because they were looking for a redeemer who would impose redemption by military force. My question is: would Christians recognize the Apocalypse (the Unveiling) if it happened with no spasms of violence and no tribulation for countless millions of people? If no one was Left Behind?
Maybe some things are best left for Bible characters after all.
JamesWimberley says:
The third team here are Muslims. I confess I have no idea what a mainstream Muslim apocalyptic looks like. We have a detailed account of the ISIS version, but they are bloodthirsty DIY fundies about as close to representative as the Left Behind books would be of Catholic teaching. If you went to Al Azhar or Ayatollah Sistani, what would they say about the End Times?
aajax says:
Depends what you mean by "mainstream", I suspect. I suspect that, like "mainstream" Christians, mainstream Muslims probably don't give it much thought. Doctrinally, though, the Islamic version is much like the Christian one. Total destruction, everyone resurrected, Judgement Day, Jesus returns to Earth to defeat the "anti-Christ", followed by a period of peace, that sort of thing.
gaiusxi says:
A bigger question to me is that of Pontius Pilate. He supposedly asked Jesus, "Are you really the King of the Jews?" Jesus replies, "It is as you say." Pilate then supposedly said, "I find no sin in this man." This is truly an extraordinary statement. Jesus has just committed a death penalty offense under Roman law. Since Judea was then a Roman subordinate state, rather than as an allied state during Herod's time, only the Romans could choose the Jewish king. Anyone else claiming the title was attempting to usurp Roman authority, promote revolution, and therefore was taking their life in their hands. So why did Pilate say that he found no sin in Jesus? Robert Graves identified one possible answer in his book "King Jesus" (1946), which can be read as yet another version of the gospels.
Perhaps Roman law required an overt act, not just speech? Jesus is represented by John's gospel as explaining that "my kingdom is not of this world", but that is of of doubtful historicity. More important, Pilate was an unscrupulous thug. The hostile biblical picture of his character is confirmed by Philo and Josephus. In the Gospels, he was being manipulated, and knew it. This is a guy who thinks in payoff matrices. The downside of execution is that it gives Caiaphas a win and risks a riot from the Jerusalem mob. The upside is that the execution on the bogus charge of rebellion can be used to reinforce Rome's and his own precarious authority. The INRI episode rings true, as does the objection of the Temple party that Pilate brushes off.
lcoleman6 says:
New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman has made the argument (which I hope I shall represent accurately) that in fact what Judas' betrayal was about was not Jesus' location or a place where they could find him without (too many) followers, as the Synoptics suggest–the rulers, both Jewish and Roman, could have kept track of that easily enough–but a statement he made to the disciples. It's been a while since I read the article, but it might have been his remark in Matthew 19:27,28 that the twelve disciples would rule with Jesus, sitting on twelve thrones and judging the twelve tribes of Israel. That would be tantamount to an intent to overthrow the government, which would be of great interest to the Romans. If that's the case, then Jesus couldn't have walked it back once Judas had submitted his evidence. It does however make for an interesting dramatic scene: Jesus' moment of decision before the court.
As a historian Ehrman's interest is in figuring out what is likely to be real (or at least part of the earliest version of the story) and what might have been added later. The choice of the "twelve thrones" comment is based on the idea that the early Christians would be unlikely to invent that story as it contains an embarrassing error: the twelve disciples Jesus was promising thrones to included the traitor Judas.
Another take on Judas is that he was a believer in the messiahship, and exasperated by Jesus' havering and ambiguities. He wanted to force Jesus into making the claim in public, which he did. Then it all went wrong – no army of angels, no thrones, humiliating and grisly death. So he committed suicide in despair and disappointment. The suicide makes no sense if Judas was merely venal or a caricature villain, in which case he would not have been unduly upset by the course of events.
rmhitchens45 says:
Kind of a side issue, but while the Gospel of John gets a lot of scholarly dismissal, the author was undoubtedly accurate on one key point — the "last supper" was not a Passover Seder, it took place a day earlier. One of Paul's authentic letters indirectly confirms this. Jesus was arrested and tried Thursday night, crucified the next morning, and died before Passover began at sunset. No Jew I've talked to believes that senior Temple Jewish officials would interrupt their own Passover celebrations to conduct a trial and hand someone over to the Romans. I believe all of these eminent 1st century Jewish officials were anxious to have the whole business over with before sundown.
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New York boosted the minimum price of a pack of cigarettes by 24 percent to $13 and placed a cap on the number of tobacco sellers, part of the city's biggest crackdown on smoking in more than a decade.
The anti-tobacco moves came in the form of a seven-point package of laws that Mayor Bill de Blasio signed Monday. The measures create a retail license fee for sellers of electronic cigarettes and almost double the licensing fee for tobacco retailers to $200. The city is also requiring all apartment buildings of three or more units to create explicit smoking policies, while banning smoking in all common areas.
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The single most important thing to note about Bassett is that she is an ex-smoker. She may or may not have found it difficult to give up smoking (we'll have to trust her on that), but she wanted to give it up and she did give it up. She made the choice for herself. Well done! De Blasio's patronizing, bullying and intrusive new laws are a statement that, in his view, Bassett is a cut above many of her fellow citizens. She was able to decide for herself what others—those weaklings— cannot be trusted to do: Those lesser folk must therefore be bullied into doing what is (medically, certainly) the right thing to do. As for those smokers who have consciously weighed the risks and wish to carry on, well, that's too bad. They must be inconvenienced too – as must those who simply enjoy the occasional cigarette or cigar.
The restrictions on retailers ("purveyors of death" apparently) are a restraint of trade and a move against consumer choice. Coupled with the dramatic increases in cigarette prices (they will be the highest in the nation) they are a gift to the black market. The New York Post reports that contraband (including 'loosies') already accounts for an estimated 60 percent of the city's cigarette sales.
And laying down the law on what goes on in private apartment blocks shows no respect for private property.
As for the move against e-cigarettes, not de Blasio's first, it demonstrates nothing more than the mayor's contempt for #science and his support for cancer (or perhaps tobacco tax revenues have a little something to do with it).
Here's something from the Guardian, no enemy of the nanny state, yesterday:
[T]largest study yet undertaken of young people's use of e-cigarettes and smoking in the UK concludes that fears of e-cigarettes becoming a gateway to tobacco for young people are largely unfounded. The study, which was based on five separate surveys gathering data from 2015 to 2017, is from a collaboration including experts from Public Health England.
A tenth to a fifth of 11- to 16-year-olds had tried e-cigarettes, but only 3% or less used them regularly and those were mostly already tobacco smokers. Among young people who have never smoked, regular use of e-cigarettes was negligible, say the authors, at between only 0.1% and 0.5%.
"This pattern was consistent across different surveys from around the UK and suggests that, for now, experimentation with e-cigarettes does not necessarily translate into regular use, particularly among never smokers," say the authors of the study, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Lead author Linda Bauld, professor of health policy at the University of Stirling, said: "Recent studies have generated alarming headlines that e-cigarettes are leading to smoking. Our analysis of the latest surveys from all parts of the United Kingdom, involving thousands of teenagers shows clearly that for those teens who don't smoke, e-cig experimentation is simply not translating into regular use.
"Our study also shows that smoking rates in young people are continuing to decline."
… The harm to health of e-cigarettes is tiny compared to that of tobacco, she said. A recent study by the Royal College of Physicians, in which she was involved, found that e-cigarettes carried only about 5% of the risks of smoking. Another found they had about 1% of the cancer risk.
Not a gateway, in other words, but a much safer alternative.
But #science denier Bill De Blasio does not seem to care.
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The greatest goals never scored: Fernando Torres vs Real Madrid, 2009
Rob Conlon
When Iker Casillas is turning to Fabio Cannavaro to brandish the universal hand signal for 'calm the f*ck down', you know something extraordinary has happened.
Come the end of the night of March 10, 2009, when Real Madrid traveled to Anfield for the second leg of their Champions League round of 16 tie against Liverpool, Casillas was reduced to just shaking his head in resignation.
We know all about these kind of nights at Anfield by now, when the opposition seem to find themselves lost amid a hurricane of red shirts and scouse howls, left to pick up the pieces of events like the morning after a night in Amsterdam – and the writing was on the wall for Casillas and co after just three minutes.
There are so many great Fernando Torres moments to choose from his time at Liverpool – his first goal for the club against Chelsea, the volley against Blackburn Rovers, the numerous times he plagued Nemanja Vidic and Manchester United – yet that third minute against Real Madrid perhaps encapsulates the striker at his exhilarating best.
Torres had limped out of Liverpool's 1-0 victory in the first leg after an hour due to an ankle injury and only made the starting XI for the return fixture after a painkilling injection and days of pleading with Rafa Benitez that he was fit and ready.
As if the motivation of reaching the Champions League quarter-finals wasn't enough, as a boyhood Atletico Madrid supporter, he was never going to miss the chance to put Real to the sword.
And so, after little over 180 seconds, he did this.
Fabio Cannavaro was moulded in the grand tradition of classy Italian centre-backs whose strength can be found in their ability to read the game and outsmart their opponents rather than bully them with physical prowess.
As a World Cup-winning captain and the last defender to win the Ballon d'Or, Cannavaro lived up to compatriot Paolo Maldini's theory: "If I have to make a tackle then I have already made a mistake."
For a footballer who defended with such artistry, it's only fitting that he was tormented by a piece of play so beautiful.
You can rue the fact that Torres was subsequently denied by Iker Casillas, who produced a stunning individual display despite ultimately conceding four goals, but perfection is boring. Torres has always been as flawed as the rest of us; that has helped make him such an alluring player throughout his career.
And anyway, those two seconds between collecting the ball and testing Casillas were much more significant than trying to score. They were a warning to Real Madrid, and a signal of intent from Anfield.
Instead, he left it until the 16th minute to finally get the ball rolling, by which point Casillas had been forced into another excellent stop from Javier Mascherano's volley and the visitors' back four were suffering with nervous breakdowns.
After a long ball was allowed to bounce, Cannavaro made a mess of an attempted clearance under pressure from Torres, and Pepe dived to floor in his own penalty box with the striker breathing down his neck. Dirk Kuyt squared the loose ball, and Torres got the fun underway.
When the final whistle was blown, Liverpool had won 4-0. Were it not for a number of fine saves from Casillas, the Reds, and Torres, would have had far more. Cannavaro, three years on from being named the finest player on the planet, had to be taken off just after the hour mark.
Torres himself was taken off 10 minutes later, replaced by unlikely goalscorer Andrea Dossena having made his mark on his old rivals.
"The kit man, doctors and physios were very good," Benitez said in his post-match press conference, typically reluctant to single out his compatriot for praise.
But in that early moment of magic from Torres, even Rafa couldn't have helped but fall under his spell.
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